News on Food Trends from United Kingdom

September 28, 2018

Empty chip bags mailed back to Walkers in protest against plastic packaging

British potato chip maker Walkers is being inundated with mail deliveries of its own packaging. Empty bags are mailed to Walkers to hold the company accountable for its packaging waste and to pressure the company to come up with a better design.

August 14, 2018

Climate-resilient spuds in focus at Potatoes in Practice 2018

Research at the James Hutton Institute has identified genetic variations which can help protect potato crop yields at high temperature, potentially providing potato breeders with a valuable tool in their quest to create varieties resilient to heat stress

August 03, 2018

UK potato processing companies say serious issues with potato supply 'extremely likely'

The Potato Processing companies in the United Kingdom have released a statement through the Potato Processors’ Association Ltd (PPA), expressing their concern for the impact of current weather conditions on UK potato processing sector.

August 02, 2018

UK Potato plantings down three per cent amid extreme weather conditions

The total area in Great Britain planted with potatoes is estimated at 119,000 hectares(ha), a fall of three per cent on the previous year. This would represent the third-lowest planted area on record, with an agricultural drought likely to affect yields.

July 30, 2018

popchips sells its European brand and operations to Intersnack

Earlier this month, KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack Group, announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Popchips Ltd, which owns and operates the Popchips brand for Europe.

July 24, 2018

Single source snack solutions showcased at the Heat and Control and Ishida Open House

Heat and Control and Ishida have demonstrated their complete solutions in snacks food production Open House event at the Ishida factory facility in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

July 10, 2018

Nomad has completed the acquisition of Aunt Bessie's

Earlier this month Nomad Foods Limited announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of Aunt Bessie’s Limited from William Jackson & Son Limited for a purchase price of approximately €240 million.

June 18, 2018

Albert Bartlett to open plant for chilled potato products

Albert Bartlett, leading supplier of fresh potatoes in the United Kingdom, is to launch chilled potato products with major UK retailers and food service customers.

June 15, 2018

McDonald's announces it's working to ditch Plastic Straws

McDonald’s restaurants in the UK and Ireland will complete transition to paper straws in 2019; In Belgium the QSR chain is testing alternatives to plastic straws and trials are planned in the United States, France, Sweden, Norway and Australia later this year.

The Intersnack Group is to acquire Tyrells' snack brands

June 05, 2018

The Intersnack Group is to acquire Tyrrells' snack brands from Hershey

Last month the Intersnack Group announced that it had reached agreement for its KP Snacks business to acquire Tyrrells, Inc. and its global portfolio of better-for-you, premium snack brands from The Hershey Company.

May 04, 2018

Ishida offers Solution to Prevent Water Ingress for Fresh and Frozen Weighing Applications

Ishida Europe has introduced an internal moisture sensor and monitoring system for its latest multihead weighers, which will enable fresh and frozen food producers to more easily control and prevent water ingress into their critical production equipment.

May 01, 2018

Kettle Chips launches new size £1 sharing bags of its most popular flavours

This spring Kettle Foods launches in the United Kingdom a new range of price marked packs (£1 per bag) to target the growing sharing snacks market.

McCain Foods & Google: What Mobile Search Reveals about Food Service Trends

April 28, 2018

McCain Foods & Google: What Mobile Search Reveals about UK Food Service Trends

Google research, developed on behalf of McCain, showed how ‘Micro Moments’ in consumer search habits are impacting eating out.

April 28, 2018

Merger talks between UK supermarket chains Sainsbury's and ASDA (Walmart)

Merger talks between British supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Asda are at an "advanced" stage, Sainsbury's has confirmed.

Planting Late? AHDB Potatoes offers guidance to make

April 24, 2018

Planting Late? AHDB Potatoes offers tips to avoid pitfalls

The weather has not been kind to potato growers in the United Kingdom. AHDB potatoes offers some helpful tips and guidance to make it a successful potato growing season nevertheless.

United Kingdom Trade in Potato Products at all time high

April 15, 2018

United Kingdom trades more Processed Potato Products

United Kingdom potato trade saw strong performance from its processed potato sectors in the first seven months of the 2017/18 marketing season. Trade of frozen potato has seen strong growth both leaving and entering the UK, although imports still outweigh exports by ten-fold.

March 28, 2018

New Late Blight Strain in UK requires Fresh Approach to Control

Late Blight control strategies in the United Kingdom will have to change this season if potato growers are to combat the spread of a new aggressive, fungicide-insensitive/ resistant strain of the disease, leading agronomy firm Hutchinsons says.

March 15, 2018

Integration of optical sorting in Tong's Caretaker potato grader proves top-grade

Tong Engineering offered the option of integrated optical sorting within its market leading grading machine, the Caretaker, back in 2016. This has proved to be a very welcome addition.

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